Reporting on Vietnam for "The New Yorker," Schell wrote a series of seminal articles that became "The Village of Ben Suc" (1967), a searing account that predicted the failure of Pentagon politics. This volume contains a landmark collection that spans the career of one of the leading thinkers and authors of modern times.

Jonathan Schell was born in 1943 in New York City, where he still lives. Among his previous books is the bestselling The Fate of the Earth. His writing on Vietnam has been included in the Library of America's two-volume Reporting Vietnam.